API Engineer

Arva Intelligence • Houston, TX

4h • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an API Engineer to join our Technology team and play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs that support both internal systems and external integrations. This is an individual contributor role requiring deep hands-on experience with API engineering using Python and AWS-based cloud services.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical judgment, a passion for building reliable and high-performing services, and the ability to collaborate closely with product managers and technology team in an Agile environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on API development
• Strong experience building APIs using Python
• Hands-on experience working in AWS cloud environments
• Solid understanding of RESTful design, GraphQL, and/or event-driven architectures
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern development workflows
• Proven ability to design systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working cross-functionally
• No degree required; demonstrated experience and technical capability are paramount

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing APIs (REST, GraphQL, and event-driven as appropriate) using Python
• Build APIs that support both internal platform capabilities and external/customer-facing integrations
• Leverage AWS cloud services to deploy, monitor, and scale API solutions
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers and cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient, reliable deployments
• Optimize API performance, scalability, and availability, including monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
• Apply best practices for API versioning, documentation, security, and observability
• Participate actively in, technical design discussions and code reviews

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed